Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day event aimed at removing invasive Burmese pythons, have been announced ...

Florida wildlife officials need your help to report sightings of a nonvenomous snake whose population has declined in recent decades. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

Burmese pythons, a non-native snake, has proliferated across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida.

Summertime in Florida means a lot of different things: Long afternoons spent on the beach, plenty of opportunities to swim in the state's natural springs, rivers and lakes and of course, keeping your ...

Florida is home to 46 native snake species, four invasive species, and six venomous snake categories. The Everglades are known for the invasive Burmese python, which can grow over 15 feet long and ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are asking the public to report sightings of the “elusive” rainbow snake, according to a news release. The FWC said the visually ...

Biologists released 42 Eastern indigo snakes into their increasingly uncommon environment, the longleaf pine ecosystem in the Florida Panhandle. Photo from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — There’s a snake the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is calling “the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow,” and they want you to let them know if you see one.

Florida wildlife officials are turning to the public to help locate one of the state’s most elusive reptiles, the rainbow snake (Farancia erytrogramma). This distinctive, nonvenomous species has seen ...

Eastern Indigo Snake. Photo by Ben Stegenga. Houston Chandler, Orianne Society's Director of Science, releases Eastern Indigo Snake into the wild in Alabama. Photo by Francesca Erickson. The Orianne ...

Biologists trudged through the grassy nature preserve carrying cloth bags that contained fearsome-seeming cargo: 42 snake-eating apex predators. The conservation program has now released 209 Eastern ...